Elana D Buch
Biographic Data
| ID | 142250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elana D Buch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elana D |
| FAMILY NAME | Buch |
| SIGNATURE | BUCH E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4502-7963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers by Cati Coe
Reviewed by: The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers by Cati Coe Elana D. Buch Cati Coe. The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers. New York: New York University Press, 2019. 304 pp. Cati Coe’s The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers is a powerful and incisive examination of the ways that paid home ca…
Age, Isolation and Inequality in the Time of Covid-19
Notes1 Adrianna Rodriguez, “Texas’ Lieutenant Governor Suggests Grandparents Are Willing to Die for US Economy,” USA Today, March 24, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/24/covid-19-texas-official-suggests-elderly-willing-die-economy/2905990001/.2 Keith Eldridge, “‘We Can’t Rule Anything In or Out,’ Inslee Says for COVID-19 Outbreak Measures,” KOMO News, March 17, 2020, https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/we-cant-rule-anyth…
Beyond the evaluative lens: Contextual unpredictabilities of care
Anthropology of Aging and Care
In concert with lengthening life spans, emerging forms of care in later life reflect complex and diverse social changes. Embracing a polysemic understanding of care as simultaneously resource and relational practice, this review works across scales of social life and theoretical approaches to care to highlight connections and fissures between global political-economic transformations and the most intimate aspects of daily life. Arguing for analys…
Postponing Passage: Doorways, Distinctions, and the Thresholds of Personhood among Older Chicagoans
This article analyzes the quotidian ways that older Chicagoans remade and traversed physical boundaries between their homes and the city beyond. In so doing, it explores how changing engagements with the environment impact social personhood in later life. In a context in which personhood is equated with independence, elders relying on paid care workers to remain in their homes found themselves at the threshold of social death. To sustain their in…
Troubling Gifts of Care: Vulnerable Persons and Threatening Exchanges in Chicago's Home Care Industry
By tracing the transformations of troubling exchanges in paid home care, this article examines how differently positioned individuals strive to build caring relations within potentially restrictive regimes of care. In paid home care in Chicago, older adults and their workers regularly participate in exchanges of money, time, and material goods. These gifts play a crucial role in building good care relationships that sustain participants' moral pe…
Senses of care: Embodying inequality and sustaining personhood in the home care of older adults in Chicago
In paid home care-one of the fastest-growing occupations in the United States-low-wage workers help elderly clients living in their own homes remain independent by embodying and then reproducing the elders' lifetimes of experience. Exploring the bodily and moral consequences of everyday home care practices in Chicago, I show that in this context, sustaining independent personhood depended on and intensified unequal social relations. To sustain cl…
Anthropology of Aging and Care
In concert with lengthening life spans, emerging forms of care in later life reflect complex and diverse social changes. Embracing a polysemic understanding of care as simultaneously resource and relational practice, this review works across scales of social life and theoretical approaches to care to highlight connections and fissures between global political-economic transformations and the most intimate aspects of daily life. Arguing for analys…
Senses of care: Embodying inequality and sustaining personhood in the home care of older adults in Chicago
In paid home care-one of the fastest-growing occupations in the United States-low-wage workers help elderly clients living in their own homes remain independent by embodying and then reproducing the elders' lifetimes of experience. Exploring the bodily and moral consequences of everyday home care practices in Chicago, I show that in this context, sustaining independent personhood depended on and intensified unequal social relations. To sustain cl…
Troubling Gifts of Care: Vulnerable Persons and Threatening Exchanges in Chicago's Home Care Industry
By tracing the transformations of troubling exchanges in paid home care, this article examines how differently positioned individuals strive to build caring relations within potentially restrictive regimes of care. In paid home care in Chicago, older adults and their workers regularly participate in exchanges of money, time, and material goods. These gifts play a crucial role in building good care relationships that sustain participants' moral pe…
Postponing Passage: Doorways, Distinctions, and the Thresholds of Personhood among Older Chicagoans
This article analyzes the quotidian ways that older Chicagoans remade and traversed physical boundaries between their homes and the city beyond. In so doing, it explores how changing engagements with the environment impact social personhood in later life. In a context in which personhood is equated with independence, elders relying on paid care workers to remain in their homes found themselves at the threshold of social death. To sustain their in…
Beyond the evaluative lens: Contextual unpredictabilities of care
Senses of care: Embodying inequality and sustaining personhood in the home care of older adults in Chicago
In paid home care-one of the fastest-growing occupations in the United States-low-wage workers help elderly clients living in their own homes remain independent by embodying and then reproducing the elders' lifetimes of experience. Exploring the bodily and moral consequences of everyday home care practices in Chicago, I show that in this context, sustaining independent personhood depended on and intensified unequal social relations. To sustain cl…
Troubling Gifts of Care: Vulnerable Persons and Threatening Exchanges in Chicago's Home Care Industry
By tracing the transformations of troubling exchanges in paid home care, this article examines how differently positioned individuals strive to build caring relations within potentially restrictive regimes of care. In paid home care in Chicago, older adults and their workers regularly participate in exchanges of money, time, and material goods. These gifts play a crucial role in building good care relationships that sustain participants' moral pe…
Anthropology of Aging and Care
In concert with lengthening life spans, emerging forms of care in later life reflect complex and diverse social changes. Embracing a polysemic understanding of care as simultaneously resource and relational practice, this review works across scales of social life and theoretical approaches to care to highlight connections and fissures between global political-economic transformations and the most intimate aspects of daily life. Arguing for analys…
Postponing Passage: Doorways, Distinctions, and the Thresholds of Personhood among Older Chicagoans
This article analyzes the quotidian ways that older Chicagoans remade and traversed physical boundaries between their homes and the city beyond. In so doing, it explores how changing engagements with the environment impact social personhood in later life. In a context in which personhood is equated with independence, elders relying on paid care workers to remain in their homes found themselves at the threshold of social death. To sustain their in…
Beyond the evaluative lens: Contextual unpredictabilities of care
Age, Isolation and Inequality in the Time of Covid-19
Notes1 Adrianna Rodriguez, “Texas’ Lieutenant Governor Suggests Grandparents Are Willing to Die for US Economy,” USA Today, March 24, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/24/covid-19-texas-official-suggests-elderly-willing-die-economy/2905990001/.2 Keith Eldridge, “‘We Can’t Rule Anything In or Out,’ Inslee Says for COVID-19 Outbreak Measures,” KOMO News, March 17, 2020, https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/we-cant-rule-anyth…
The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers by Cati Coe
Reviewed by: The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers by Cati Coe Elana D. Buch Cati Coe. The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers. New York: New York University Press, 2019. 304 pp. Cati Coe’s The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers is a powerful and incisive examination of the ways that paid home ca…
Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Biology (2 works)